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it's that president obama has retreated on his hard line on taxes. obama may think his conciliatory approach has helped avoid economic chaos. instead, he is courting it." i want to go right to jimmy williams because you have been a senate staffer. you understand how this thing works. why would the white house even bother to increase from 250,000 to 400,000. they don't really have to. they're winning this fives fight. >> the only people that actually care whether or not the threshold is 250,000 to 400,000 are these people that are going to vote on it. nobody else really cares. all they really care is that you get a deal. these people are sitting at ground zero. these snores, these liberals. i'm a liberal. i don't care what the thereby hold is. i don't give a damn if it's a million. i just want them to get a deal or go over the cliff, but somebody just make up your mind up on capitol hill. that's what the american people would like to hear. here's the bottom line. even if they do get a deal at 450,000 or 500,000 or whatever that number is, barack obama
it's that president obama has retreated on his hard line on taxes. obama may think his conciliatory approach has helped avoid economic chaos. instead, he is courting it." i want to go right to jimmy williams because you have been a senate staffer. you understand how this thing works. why would the white house even bother to increase from 250,000 to 400,000. they don't really have to. they're winning this fives fight. >> the only people that actually care whether or not the threshold...
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obama, if he got his taxes on the rich, is still $8 trillion short over the next decade. that's where the energy taxes he's going to present and the value added tax that ultimately turns us into a european welfare state only of that can pay for obama's sized government. >> wow. grover, unfortunately we have to leave it there. our discussion of unicorns will continue, i'm sure, at least up until december 31st. thank you for joining us today as always. >> you got it. >> after the break, offer ver ses counteroffer. we will break both down with ezra klein when he joins us next on "now." i gave birth to my daughter on may 18th, five days later, i had a massive heart attack. bayer aspirin was the first thing the emts gave me. now, i'm on a bayer aspirin regimen. [ male announcer ] be sure to talk to your doctor before you begin an aspirin regimen. [ woman ] learn from my story. but proven technologies allow natural gas producers to supply affordable, cleaner energy, while protecting our environment. across america, these technologies protect air - by monitoring air quality and
obama, if he got his taxes on the rich, is still $8 trillion short over the next decade. that's where the energy taxes he's going to present and the value added tax that ultimately turns us into a european welfare state only of that can pay for obama's sized government. >> wow. grover, unfortunately we have to leave it there. our discussion of unicorns will continue, i'm sure, at least up until december 31st. thank you for joining us today as always. >> you got it. >> after...
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obama have the stomach for snoer? the president has yet to nominate anyone to his second term cabinet. his predecessor george w. bush had nominated seven new cabinet members, and in 1996 bill clinton had already nominated new secretaries of state in defense by november 5. jay carney on the delay. >> what is the hold-up? is there a hold-up? >> there's no hold-up. the president has made no decisions, and i have no personnel announcements to make. >> there's a reason for the late pass. any announcement would distract now from the white house's laser-like focus on its fiscal message. officially the white house insists the delayed schedule has nothing do with the current budget fight, and according to the hill, senior administration officials and others familiar with the process say the fiscal debate and cabinet moves are proceeding independently on parallel tracks. the biggest decision he has to make is to appoint to replace the popular hillary clinton at state? does he go for his preferred pick u.n. ambassador susan righ
obama have the stomach for snoer? the president has yet to nominate anyone to his second term cabinet. his predecessor george w. bush had nominated seven new cabinet members, and in 1996 bill clinton had already nominated new secretaries of state in defense by november 5. jay carney on the delay. >> what is the hold-up? is there a hold-up? >> there's no hold-up. the president has made no decisions, and i have no personnel announcements to make. >> there's a reason for the late...
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president obama's not talking about. mitt romney's not talking about it. it's not abstract. it's -- you know hours after election day, and steve rattner's right. entitlement cuts are not popular, raising taxes is not pop lular but everything you ha to talk about on dealing with the fiscal cliff is not popular. both candidates are in a mutual pact on that issue. >> it's not because it's not popular the dynamics will change dramatically depending on who's elected. >> exactly the president has more leverage -- the president has more leverage either way. if he has a second term he has more leverage with house republicans in the lame duck and the dynamics coming. they basically said in congress, wait until november 7th to find out what happens. >> i find it fascinate, within the beltway, those who follow there is we are dying to hear more specifics about the fiscal cliff. ordinary voters on main street want to know which guys will help me get a job or will improve the economy. they want basic. we have an economy that need fixing. i think that the president's first job, number one
president obama's not talking about. mitt romney's not talking about it. it's not abstract. it's -- you know hours after election day, and steve rattner's right. entitlement cuts are not popular, raising taxes is not pop lular but everything you ha to talk about on dealing with the fiscal cliff is not popular. both candidates are in a mutual pact on that issue. >> it's not because it's not popular the dynamics will change dramatically depending on who's elected. >> exactly the...
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. >> despite a scoreboard of 332 to 206, congressman paul ryan refuses to admit that president obama might have a mandate to push his agenda, a big part of which includes raising taxes on high earners. this week the president is holding court with ally and opponents to discuss the upcoming fiscal cliff. yesterday, at a meeting with progressive leaders the president said he would not give in to republican demands to extend all of the bush tax cuts. today he will meet with business leaders. the discussions underscore the president's opposing constituencies, but according to new york magazine's jonathan chaits the president has to do what he want -- joining us now from washington, "new york" magazine columnist by god jonathan chait. hello, my friend. >> thank you. >> jonathan, so the president met with progressive leaders yesterday and i think gave them some welcome news. how does he handle the meeting with the business leaders today some. >> i wasn't there. they didn't invite me. i'm not a business leader. >> you think he has a clear -- i won't say mandate but the wind in his sails on
. >> despite a scoreboard of 332 to 206, congressman paul ryan refuses to admit that president obama might have a mandate to push his agenda, a big part of which includes raising taxes on high earners. this week the president is holding court with ally and opponents to discuss the upcoming fiscal cliff. yesterday, at a meeting with progressive leaders the president said he would not give in to republican demands to extend all of the bush tax cuts. today he will meet with business leaders....
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so hope and change turning into a 3,000 word, 20 tax increase obama care is rather dramatic. what the ryan plan has put forward has been passd in the house, got the votes of most republicans in the senate, outlines taking what clinton did on welfare reform to all means-tested welfare programs, medicaid, food stamps and so on, as well as reforming medicare, protecting anybody over 55 so nothing changes if you're over 55. if you're under 55, reforming medicare so it's still there. ryan's point was the only thing we know about obama's interest in medicare is that he takes $700 billion and hands it to obama care. >> glenn thrush from politico has a question for you. >> sure. >> you know, these guys when they introduced paul ryan, they did it in front of a navy vessel near a military base. you've got george allen in virginia running all these ads against the sequester and the defense cuts. you have come out more or less in favor of cutting the defense budget to deal with the deficit. how do you think ryan and romney are on defense and do you think they've got to be more realistic?
so hope and change turning into a 3,000 word, 20 tax increase obama care is rather dramatic. what the ryan plan has put forward has been passd in the house, got the votes of most republicans in the senate, outlines taking what clinton did on welfare reform to all means-tested welfare programs, medicaid, food stamps and so on, as well as reforming medicare, protecting anybody over 55 so nothing changes if you're over 55. if you're under 55, reforming medicare so it's still there. ryan's point...
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candidate outlined a specific and aggressive policy agenda including his plans for the tax code. >> change means a tax code that doesn't reward the lobbyists who wrote it but the american workers and small businesses who deserve it. i will stop giving tax breaks to companies that ship jobs overseas and i will start giving them to companies that create good jobs right here in america. >> regardless of whether or not the president has achieved those goals in his first term, will he use tonight to outline certain plans for a second term? we will discuss that ahead on "now." ♪ [ acoustic guitar: upbeat ] [ dog ] we found it together. on a walk, walk, walk. love to walk. yeah, we found that wonderful thing. and you smiled. and threw it. and i decided i would never, ever leave it anywhere. because that wonderful, bouncy, roll-around thing... had made you play. and that... had made you smile. [ announcer ] beneful. play. it's good for you. >>> mr. romney and mr. ryan are came pa campaigning for women's votes by saying women need their help. okay. this is coming from two men who are micom
candidate outlined a specific and aggressive policy agenda including his plans for the tax code. >> change means a tax code that doesn't reward the lobbyists who wrote it but the american workers and small businesses who deserve it. i will stop giving tax breaks to companies that ship jobs overseas and i will start giving them to companies that create good jobs right here in america. >> regardless of whether or not the president has achieved those goals in his first term, will he...
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we call those poll taxes. >> we will discuss the tactics behind this voter fraudulent behavior when joe sestak and the nation's ari berman join us, next. >>> today, the obama administration is in court asking a panel of judges to reject south carolina's photo i.d. law. the justice department argues that it will likely disenfranchise minority voters by significant numbers. in recent years, republican governors in ten states have enacted laws requiring voters to show i.d. before casting their votes. republicans argue they're just trying to root out voter fraud but the idea that ineligible voters are swinging elections is pure fantasy. according to nyu's brendan center for justice, americans are more likely to get struck by lightning than to encounter voter fraud. so what exactly is the purpose of voter i.d. laws? more than anything, these laws help keep certain sectors of the electorate from exercising their constitutional right to vote, and in turn, this helps republicans win elections. the republican leader of the pennsylvania house said as much earlier this summer. >> voter i.d. which
we call those poll taxes. >> we will discuss the tactics behind this voter fraudulent behavior when joe sestak and the nation's ari berman join us, next. >>> today, the obama administration is in court asking a panel of judges to reject south carolina's photo i.d. law. the justice department argues that it will likely disenfranchise minority voters by significant numbers. in recent years, republican governors in ten states have enacted laws requiring voters to show i.d. before...
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coming up here, president obama takes his tax plan on the road trying to sell it to the american people. republicans aren't buying it. congressman jason chav fitz joins me. fay yesterday and ambassador martin indyk with reaction to the vote at the u.n. and the wife of an american contractor jailed? cuba turns up the heat on the u.s. government and one campaign ceo michael elliott on the work that needs to be done. that plus the lottery winners power ball. "andrea mitchell reports" is next. n an accident... i was worried the health care system spoke a language all its own with unitedhealthcare, i got help that fit my life. information on my phone. connection to doctors who get where i'm from. and tools to estimate what my care may cost. so i never missed a beat. we're more than 78,000 people looking out for more than 70 million americans. that's health in numbers. unitedhealthcare.
coming up here, president obama takes his tax plan on the road trying to sell it to the american people. republicans aren't buying it. congressman jason chav fitz joins me. fay yesterday and ambassador martin indyk with reaction to the vote at the u.n. and the wife of an american contractor jailed? cuba turns up the heat on the u.s. government and one campaign ceo michael elliott on the work that needs to be done. that plus the lottery winners power ball. "andrea mitchell reports" is...
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deficit, i have also said that i'm willing to identify some spending cuts that make sense. >> president obama addressed fiscal cliff negotiations during his remarks in the white house briefing room earlier this hour. we have a lot to discuss. and helping us do that is capitol hill sage nbc's luke russert. luke, there are many things that stood out to me in that press conference. we spoke to senator barbara boxer a about the newtown shooting and his push for gun reform, but in terms of the fiscal cliff, at one point he said, they just can't say yes to me, speaking of house republicans. what he's put forward is imminently reasonable and the republicans can't get their act together. how's that going to play on capitol hill? >> it will be interesting, i also found it fascinating he almost became a political scientist regarding the house republican conference and how difficult it is for john boehner to get anything accomplished with that group of people, saying districts obviously did not vote for me. there's always a worry here on capitol hill amongst democratic aides that they say when the presi
deficit, i have also said that i'm willing to identify some spending cuts that make sense. >> president obama addressed fiscal cliff negotiations during his remarks in the white house briefing room earlier this hour. we have a lot to discuss. and helping us do that is capitol hill sage nbc's luke russert. luke, there are many things that stood out to me in that press conference. we spoke to senator barbara boxer a about the newtown shooting and his push for gun reform, but in terms of the...
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flash back to the last extension of the payroll tax cut where obama essentially drew a line in the sand, said we're going to extend this payroll tax cut, house republicans blocked him. and if you remember the public furor, they collapsed in about a week. >> that was a cut. >> that pressure would be much more intense because everybody's tax rates would be going up this time. the debt ceiling isn't going to hit until some time in february or as curt said, maybe later if the government starts getting in more revenue. the idea that republicans will be able to hold out for two months i find kind of hard to believe. i think this gets resolved pretty early on in january, if it even takes that long. >> i want to talk about the affordable care act too. this was the thing, the thing, that romney was going to do, repeal obama care, and now it is, as the speaker says, law of the land. the other thing that we've all known is, once this thing starts, once it is a practical reality in americans' lives, i brought the public support will be through the rife, right? the question facing republicans now is
flash back to the last extension of the payroll tax cut where obama essentially drew a line in the sand, said we're going to extend this payroll tax cut, house republicans blocked him. and if you remember the public furor, they collapsed in about a week. >> that was a cut. >> that pressure would be much more intense because everybody's tax rates would be going up this time. the debt ceiling isn't going to hit until some time in february or as curt said, maybe later if the government...
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obama said i couldn't take 700,000 or $800,000 in terms of the tax rates. that still leaves 500,000 or maybe up to 650,000. what happened to make these two sides go back this their corner and paintory put forward plan b? no one knows for sure. the explanation we're hearing is, well, the president is not serious. well, from reading everything and from talking to people, it seems to be that both sides were moving together. what happened? we do not necessarily know. this plan b will most likely pass tonight. republicans believe they have the votes after they added those defense cuts in there. sorry. after they replaced the defense cuts. it would move forward. mr. cantor said that they're not going to go home this weekend. apparently they're going to be here. it's unclear what exactly they would work on, but this is some sort of dance we're seeing here, alex, that really has no explanation. >> we thought it was three acts. it turns out to be a 15 act. glen, if you break it down, as luke says, we were not that far away at some point? maybe we're still close, who
obama said i couldn't take 700,000 or $800,000 in terms of the tax rates. that still leaves 500,000 or maybe up to 650,000. what happened to make these two sides go back this their corner and paintory put forward plan b? no one knows for sure. the explanation we're hearing is, well, the president is not serious. well, from reading everything and from talking to people, it seems to be that both sides were moving together. what happened? we do not necessarily know. this plan b will most likely...
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. >> are you saying then, for pr purposes, that they should give in to obama on the tax rate? >> not exactly. well, yeah, i guess i am. >> you're saying to capitulate to obama who's -- we don't have a revenue problem, ann. >> we lost the election, sean. >> what was that? i mean joy. >> stop making sense, ann. >> we should have led with that. it is like ann coulter is admitting the republicans lost and some deal should be in order. >> when ann coulter is the sanest voice in your party it might be time to going back to being the wigs. it's a it tough time for republicans. she's right. the republicans at this point are negotiating the terms of their surrender on the tax issue. from a pr standpoint and a real standpoint they can't look like all they care about is defending those top 2% rates. >> absolutely. >> if i can go back to what joan said, i think the problem is that if you look at ann coulter even, feeds into the same thing, people like jim demint may be leaving the senate but it's like the movie "aliens" he's seated the host with the alien baby. >> oh, god. >> all these pe
. >> are you saying then, for pr purposes, that they should give in to obama on the tax rate? >> not exactly. well, yeah, i guess i am. >> you're saying to capitulate to obama who's -- we don't have a revenue problem, ann. >> we lost the election, sean. >> what was that? i mean joy. >> stop making sense, ann. >> we should have led with that. it is like ann coulter is admitting the republicans lost and some deal should be in order. >> when ann...
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end of the day president obama is selling a simple message, i want to keep taxes low for middle-class americans and republicans look like -- i'm worried are in the position offiof ing -- looking as fe the don't care about middle class. >> joining us is the sage of capitol hill, boat shoe enthusiast and celebrity doppelganger, nbc's luke russert. >> good day. happy monday. >> thank you, luke. it's an exciting time on capitol hill my friend. i want to focus first on the gop. is the party coming together, coalescing around something, anything, relating to the fiscal cliff? >> well, i think they're coalescing around anything it's for speaker boehner to continue the negotiations and not give a single inch. the gop has done very well over the last few years is in the negotiations with president obama. they've held a hard line to the very end including during the debt limit where john boehner is allowed to say he got 98% of what he wanted. what you have to look for is the splinter that tom cole started last week, heard mr. chris toll say about how the president has an effective bully pulpit
end of the day president obama is selling a simple message, i want to keep taxes low for middle-class americans and republicans look like -- i'm worried are in the position offiof ing -- looking as fe the don't care about middle class. >> joining us is the sage of capitol hill, boat shoe enthusiast and celebrity doppelganger, nbc's luke russert. >> good day. happy monday. >> thank you, luke. it's an exciting time on capitol hill my friend. i want to focus first on the gop. is...
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plan that obama's putting forward actually doesn't extend the tax breaks for the wealthiest people up to $200,000 in income. it's the rate that's over that that don't get taxed. >> john, basically what we're seeing is potentially this could be a fiscal clif in the wile e. coyote style where you tread in the air but you could come back onto solid ground. >> it's possible. in fact, it's probably more likely than not that going over the cliff for at least a short period of time would be the action-forcing mechanism that produces a solution. and i think you have to say, for all the raps on congress and their approval rating is somewhere in the single digits, they did do a pretty good job of designing something that is so onerous to all sides that they really don't want it to take effect. >> thank you to john harwood who answered my wile e. coyote question with a totally straight face. now he's laughing. inch coming up, bubba and the boss in the buckeye state. will a bill clinton/bruce springsteen double bill grab votes for an all-important ohio? we'll discuss two different kinds of rock s
plan that obama's putting forward actually doesn't extend the tax breaks for the wealthiest people up to $200,000 in income. it's the rate that's over that that don't get taxed. >> john, basically what we're seeing is potentially this could be a fiscal clif in the wile e. coyote style where you tread in the air but you could come back onto solid ground. >> it's possible. in fact, it's probably more likely than not that going over the cliff for at least a short period of time would...
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boehner doesn't want to or think he can sell his members on a big tax increase, and president obama, particularly if he's not going to get the tax increase, is not going to go for big entitlement cuts. the underlying problem, the one nobody is knowing how to solve, is what breaks the actual disagreement here. and as of yet, nothing either side have put on the table that is enough to do it. >> sam stein, are things better than we think they are? i mean, as ezra points out -- did you say always? >> always. >> as ezra points out, the fact they are not leaking details of the plan would seem to maybe say we're getting closer, but the tension and the short phone calls and the sense of intransigence on both sides, i don't know, the mood doesn't seem constructive. >> there's a lot involved here. for instance, the idea that the boehner offer says a permanent extension of all tax rates. i got an e-mail saying that was an erroneous report. everything is in the air right now. you do get the sense, as ezra noted, because things are relatively cordial behind the scenes, it seems, that's progress,
boehner doesn't want to or think he can sell his members on a big tax increase, and president obama, particularly if he's not going to get the tax increase, is not going to go for big entitlement cuts. the underlying problem, the one nobody is knowing how to solve, is what breaks the actual disagreement here. and as of yet, nothing either side have put on the table that is enough to do it. >> sam stein, are things better than we think they are? i mean, as ezra points out -- did you say...
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coming up, president obama calms on congress to end tax subsidies for big oil but it failed. what's next for health care. dan pfeiffer joins me. will preview the house votes on the democratic and republican versions of the budget. and senator joe manchin is here on how both parties are coming together, you heard that, coming together to help hire our vets. "andrea mitchell reports" is next. it's just too hard." then there was a moment. when i decided to find a way to keep going. go for olympic gold and go to college too. [ male announcer ] every day we help students earn their bachelor's or master's degree for tomorrow's careers. this is your moment. let nothing stand in your way. devry university, proud to support the education of our u.s. olympic team. four walls and a roof is a structure. what's inside is a home. home protector plus, from liberty mutual insurance, where the costs to both repair your house and replace what's inside are covered. and we don't just cut a check for the depreciated value -- we can actually replace your stuff with an exact or near match. and with
coming up, president obama calms on congress to end tax subsidies for big oil but it failed. what's next for health care. dan pfeiffer joins me. will preview the house votes on the democratic and republican versions of the budget. and senator joe manchin is here on how both parties are coming together, you heard that, coming together to help hire our vets. "andrea mitchell reports" is next. it's just too hard." then there was a moment. when i decided to find a way to keep going....
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cuts expire, build our own obama tax cut package and be credited for a massive tax cut for middle class and below. everything i'm getting out of the white house is they don't want to do that. i'm not sure why. they feel like they can get resolution before that. history suggests otherwise, i think. >> mark, the president has gone out i would say yosemite sam style $1.6 trillion in revenue double the amount from the previous bargaining sessions. he has learned about playing poker in the modern political landscape. what do you make of what sam just said, he's going to perhaps avoid taking the country over the cliff or the curb, that would be a bid of being reasonable instead of extreme. >> he's in a maximum position of leverage and demonstrating that by taking the most confident position. i think that makes total sense from a negotiating standpoint. if i were the president and his team that's exactly what i'd be doing. >> the question, how do you get the better deal for the american people? do you get it by not going over the cliff or going over the cliff? so far the indications are you go
cuts expire, build our own obama tax cut package and be credited for a massive tax cut for middle class and below. everything i'm getting out of the white house is they don't want to do that. i'm not sure why. they feel like they can get resolution before that. history suggests otherwise, i think. >> mark, the president has gone out i would say yosemite sam style $1.6 trillion in revenue double the amount from the previous bargaining sessions. he has learned about playing poker in the...
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the old obama was right. it's a regressive tax and it's not a great way to fund government for sure. >> but it was classic anti-colonial kenyan thinking bill obama. right? >> with respect to the lottery, i remember it was six or seven years ago that senator judd gregg won something like $800,000 in the lottery. i was thinking to myself, wow, it's totally indiscriminate who can win. is it possibly the worst way to produce social mobility. it's terrible. >> if we talking about social mobility, this is really important these numbers coming out this week that 93% of the added income created in 2010 went to the top 1% of the country. the top 1% saw income increase by 11.6% on average an extra $105,000. the bottom 99% saw wages up .2%. $80 a year. >> yeah. >> you look at those figures. this is now. this is what's happening now in america. but to your point, ryan, the reality is that the lottery does pay for state programs and education is one of the biggest areas where lottery money you know ends up. the new york l
the old obama was right. it's a regressive tax and it's not a great way to fund government for sure. >> but it was classic anti-colonial kenyan thinking bill obama. right? >> with respect to the lottery, i remember it was six or seven years ago that senator judd gregg won something like $800,000 in the lottery. i was thinking to myself, wow, it's totally indiscriminate who can win. is it possibly the worst way to produce social mobility. it's terrible. >> if we talking about...
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of the bush tax cuts. that makes him complicity in the eyes of the base, and they're going to fire him from his job if he does that, in all likelihood. >> do you really think that he will get fired if he lets those tax cuts expire? >> it's at best 50-50 he keeps his job, if he cooperates in making that bargain. the best thing for boehner is for that to happen without his cooperation, without his active cooperation. it's got to happen without him. then they can go ahead and get the rest of the revenue without raising tax rates. then the tax rates will go back to the clinton levels. the rest of it will happen automatically, and, you know, the republicans are trying to do this complicated scenario where they vote present. if they don't vote and the democrats vote, it's this ritual where the dmgz do all the voting, and the republicans kind of stand by, and i think they're right to do that, because then you've got a trillion of revenue automatically locked in. then, you know, obama is asking for another $600 bi
of the bush tax cuts. that makes him complicity in the eyes of the base, and they're going to fire him from his job if he does that, in all likelihood. >> do you really think that he will get fired if he lets those tax cuts expire? >> it's at best 50-50 he keeps his job, if he cooperates in making that bargain. the best thing for boehner is for that to happen without his cooperation, without his active cooperation. it's got to happen without him. then they can go ahead and get the...
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question is has obama changed? all i have to do is sit here and the revenue comes in the door. >> don't you think -- look at payroll tax cut fight he won on that and took it to the american public. i'm of the think he learned some lessons in the first four years. >> back to what joy says you don't need 99 tea partiers. this doesn't have to pass with 90%. this has to pass with 51% in the house, and we can get those votes if we create the atmosphere, if boehner works hard, the business community's key. the business community's contributed over $35 billion to the campaign to fix the debt for a public relations campaign. the business community can come down on the other nontea party republicans and say you've got to do this, understand you've got to do this. if the president does what you suggest, the problem is it could work, absolutely, but it's going to poison the atmosphere for four years and we've got other fish to fry. immigration, infrastructure, jobs and other fish to fry, energy independence. energy independen
question is has obama changed? all i have to do is sit here and the revenue comes in the door. >> don't you think -- look at payroll tax cut fight he won on that and took it to the american public. i'm of the think he learned some lessons in the first four years. >> back to what joy says you don't need 99 tea partiers. this doesn't have to pass with 90%. this has to pass with 51% in the house, and we can get those votes if we create the atmosphere, if boehner works hard, the...
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in the "wall street journal" they write obama's flexible on highest tax rates. white house's flexibility, described by bowls, confirmed by the administration officials, could envision tax rates -- tax rate increase from the current level but was less than clinton era levels. if the republicans can say, we cut taxes from where they were under clinton it gives them cover though rates may go up. a weird, if there is an act of kabuki theater that would be it, right. >> i see a parallel between the two news story the palestinian vote and the congressional stuff because boehner's -- >> be careful here, my friend, please. >> let me do my caveats first. i still have a job when i walk out of the studio. i sort of see a boehner in the role of a boss here. you know he has got, you know, he's got still a very hard core group of people on right who are not still -- still not terribly afraid and are not taking lessons out of election so he really does have a fundamental concern about how he's going to put together a coalition to do this. and i really do think, for all joking
in the "wall street journal" they write obama's flexible on highest tax rates. white house's flexibility, described by bowls, confirmed by the administration officials, could envision tax rates -- tax rate increase from the current level but was less than clinton era levels. if the republicans can say, we cut taxes from where they were under clinton it gives them cover though rates may go up. a weird, if there is an act of kabuki theater that would be it, right. >> i see a...
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but if you turned to tax increases, obama has already moved from, again the last public real offer $355 billion while boehner's moved only $150 billion. less than half. and then finally, and i want to go to you to unpack this. the stimulus money. this is not to be forgotten. we are in a recession. and many economists say that whatever else you do with long-term entitlement reform which is real, another real thing is growing the economy. obama has moved $250 billion. the number that boehner has moved on that stimulus is zero from the last final comprehensive offer. what do you make of that pacting that we are not mere the 50-yard line anymore? >> we also add that not only has boehner month moved, he can't get his own caucus to vote on the plan he brought forward. we are not only talking about symbolic gestures here, we are talking about someone that not only has not been able to deliver his own votes but isn't particularly interested in working with nancy pelosi to get moderate democrats onboard. again, we are talking about very symbolic things. i think john boehner is far more intereste
but if you turned to tax increases, obama has already moved from, again the last public real offer $355 billion while boehner's moved only $150 billion. less than half. and then finally, and i want to go to you to unpack this. the stimulus money. this is not to be forgotten. we are in a recession. and many economists say that whatever else you do with long-term entitlement reform which is real, another real thing is growing the economy. obama has moved $250 billion. the number that boehner has...
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in the next hour and a half, president obama will continue the great reasonableness tour of 2012. visiting a middle class family in northern virginia with the aim of putting more pressure on congress to extend middle income tax cuts. majority leader harry reid did his part for the cause on the senate floor today. >> so it's apparent how this will end. the only question is, when will it end? it's how long will speaker boehner make middle class families wait for relief and how long will he force the financial markets to wait for uncertainty. >> joining the panel now, the sage of capitol hill, the seasonally elegant luke russert. >> thank you so much for having me. >> you get a special intro when you arrive on set a little late. thrilled to have you here, with ongoing deliberation on capitol hill, you are the eyes. >> eyes and ears hopefully. yet i'm here, congress is recessed this week. >> always a reason, my friend. the fact that tim geithner came out and said, we will go over this cliff, is somewhat counter to what the president has been saying thus far. you couple that and the re
in the next hour and a half, president obama will continue the great reasonableness tour of 2012. visiting a middle class family in northern virginia with the aim of putting more pressure on congress to extend middle income tax cuts. majority leader harry reid did his part for the cause on the senate floor today. >> so it's apparent how this will end. the only question is, when will it end? it's how long will speaker boehner make middle class families wait for relief and how long will he...
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and obama said to them, in essence, you know, i'm fine doing tax reform in 2013, fine doing entitlement reform during 2013 but you have to get me something to get there and what i'm going to demand is some rates going up and he didn't get an explicit no, at least from what my sources are telling me from boehner. a lot of people are optimistic about that private sign that was given to them as indication that they are ready to deal even if publicly they're staking out far -- >> isn't this the case boehner has done that before. boehner in private could negotiate with the president and then he can't deliver. there's a thing called time. on december 31st doesn't matter what republicans want or don't want to do they will be negotiating a tax cut in 2013 because all the taxes will go up. >> politico says that democrats in the senate have their own fiscal concerns, fiscal cliff issues. harry reid will have to find 60 votes to extend just the middle income tax rates far from a given when a swath of the senate's moderate democrats are up for re-election in 2014 in a nutshell, democrats haven't co
and obama said to them, in essence, you know, i'm fine doing tax reform in 2013, fine doing entitlement reform during 2013 but you have to get me something to get there and what i'm going to demand is some rates going up and he didn't get an explicit no, at least from what my sources are telling me from boehner. a lot of people are optimistic about that private sign that was given to them as indication that they are ready to deal even if publicly they're staking out far -- >> isn't this...
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it turns out that romney supports the proposal and they've got an argument of tax and spending on their hands. >> violence against women, you can't argue that republicans were put into an uncomfortable position on that. >> the bigger point is the obama campaign has been all over the map all week long on a variety of issues. on the substance of the executive order, transparency, helping military families, terrific. if it's a strategic approach of winning the young vote, the reality is that young voters are registering as republicans in swing states as much as democrats because they want a future where they can have jobs. that's the key issue going on here. >> can you explain to me exactly what mitt romney's policies are on all these things? he's responding to what the president is doing. at least the president is laying out specific policies. the romney folks have him yet to get up and make these big economic speeches that they keep saying he's going to make. where is his list? it's difficult to nail him down on the specifics. >> casey, governor romney laid out a specific prescription fo
it turns out that romney supports the proposal and they've got an argument of tax and spending on their hands. >> violence against women, you can't argue that republicans were put into an uncomfortable position on that. >> the bigger point is the obama campaign has been all over the map all week long on a variety of issues. on the substance of the executive order, transparency, helping military families, terrific. if it's a strategic approach of winning the young vote, the reality...
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so president obama is looking out for his best interests. congressional leadership saying this is republicans and congress's fault. >> jodi made the right point. there are two things going on. the politics of 8.2% unemployment, 69,000 jobs created. that's terrible. there's no way around that, that's terrible politically. then there is the economy which operates not only not fully under the control of this president or any president but not very much at all under the control of a president so the question is, are people when they get in the voting booth having heard the republican platform for economic revival going to say, yeah, this hasn't been so good but is this going to be better. i don't think people are stupid. they may feel bad and that may incline them to say let's try something different but when they get what that different is that romney is proposing, that's going to be where push comes to shove. i'm not sure that's going to look so good come november. >> if you think back to the last president going for re-election, president bus
so president obama is looking out for his best interests. congressional leadership saying this is republicans and congress's fault. >> jodi made the right point. there are two things going on. the politics of 8.2% unemployment, 69,000 jobs created. that's terrible. there's no way around that, that's terrible politically. then there is the economy which operates not only not fully under the control of this president or any president but not very much at all under the control of a president...
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it's going to be all about him one way or the other as obama talks about taxes and income and inequality. he has a couple of days before peek start making up this their minds in florida and we are out of time for him to say anything other than i'm really rich. >> the president will talk a lot about the buffett rule and every time he does that people in american will be thinking about mitt romney and how he does not pay enough taxes and working people pay a lot more. >> you can bet the people will be keeping that talking point aloft. it's good to look at the trend lines in terms of national tracking and gallop, showing, not a cratering seems too severe but slightly accurate when you talk about mitt romney's support, the red line dipping down is where romney is at and the gray line where newt gingrich is. this had stuff is hurting him, is it not? >> it is but people that are supporting the president should not get excited about the prospect of running against newt gingrich. it's a long way to the nomination. it's a long process and gingrich has more stuff. the slow drip will get louder and
it's going to be all about him one way or the other as obama talks about taxes and income and inequality. he has a couple of days before peek start making up this their minds in florida and we are out of time for him to say anything other than i'm really rich. >> the president will talk a lot about the buffett rule and every time he does that people in american will be thinking about mitt romney and how he does not pay enough taxes and working people pay a lot more. >> you can bet...
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. >> now even though boehner did not achieve the floor vote, he argues that obama and senate democrats should make the next move, but that won't be easy as speaker boehner admitted today. >> there's a perception created that that vote last night was going to increase taxes. now, i disagree with that characterization of the bill, but that impression was out there, and we had a number of our members who just didn't really want to be perceived as having to raise taxes. that was the real issue. >> translation? i failed. majority leader eric cantor, who is also a proteshl rooil to boehner is staying united on this one. he released a statement basically releasing the house for christmas. the house has concluded legislative work. no deal to avoid the fiscal cliff and its inducing spending cuts. check. no deal to avoid tax hikes on 100% of americans. check. the republican mutany was successful, but the cost could ultimately sink the economy. joining us now from the capitol is nbc's luke russert. how are you doing? >> ari, how are you, sir? good to see you in the chair. >> nice to see you. let'
. >> now even though boehner did not achieve the floor vote, he argues that obama and senate democrats should make the next move, but that won't be easy as speaker boehner admitted today. >> there's a perception created that that vote last night was going to increase taxes. now, i disagree with that characterization of the bill, but that impression was out there, and we had a number of our members who just didn't really want to be perceived as having to raise taxes. that was the...
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one that will relent on tax increases to make a deal with president obama? house speaker john boehner said no way. >> i told tom earlier in our conference meeting that i disagreed with him. you're not going to grow the economy if you raise tax rates on the top two rates. it will hurt small businesses and hurt our economy. >> joining me now from washington, d.c., the democratic senator from washington, patty murray, a member of the senate budget committee. it is great to have you on the program. >> well, thank you, alex. nice to chat with you. >> senator, let's talk about the fiscal cliff. increasingly we are referring to it as the fiscal curve, possibly among some folks in our circle, the fiscal mole hill. you have advocated going over the fiscal cliff as a way for both democrats and republicans to make a deal and i will call to mind -- i will call to everyone's attention comments you made at the brookings institution this summer when you said if the bush tax cuts expire every proposal will be a tax cut proposal and the norquist pledge will no longer keep re
one that will relent on tax increases to make a deal with president obama? house speaker john boehner said no way. >> i told tom earlier in our conference meeting that i disagreed with him. you're not going to grow the economy if you raise tax rates on the top two rates. it will hurt small businesses and hurt our economy. >> joining me now from washington, d.c., the democratic senator from washington, patty murray, a member of the senate budget committee. it is great to have you on...
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tying himself to those tax cuts is a very good thing for the president. >> obama extended them. >> well, under duress, with a gun to his head, with the congress that wouldn't do anything else. >> okay. all right. >> but they will ex-spipire thi year. >> i'm reminded, watching george w. bush, thinking about the heated rhetoric and the name calling and that's putting it mildly, that's directed the way of president obama, is george w. bush, i mean, where would he sit in the modern republic, in the current contemporary republican party? >> i'm not sure. you know what? in that clip that you showed, it shows i think the real george bu bush, the statesman george bush when he said not just that he's going to relinquish the limelight but said i will not undermine our president. >> right. >> by stepping in. that's what a statesman does. in the republican party, unfortunately, there aren't that many statesmen. poor speaker john boehner is the only person i can think of in the republican party who rises to that level. and if more -- >> occasionally and then gets pulled back. >> if more republicans
tying himself to those tax cuts is a very good thing for the president. >> obama extended them. >> well, under duress, with a gun to his head, with the congress that wouldn't do anything else. >> okay. all right. >> but they will ex-spipire thi year. >> i'm reminded, watching george w. bush, thinking about the heated rhetoric and the name calling and that's putting it mildly, that's directed the way of president obama, is george w. bush, i mean, where would he sit...
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applause ] everybody likes free stuff, but there is no free stuff when government has to pay and has to tax the american people or when it borrows from future generations and obama-care is depressing job growth. if priority number one is jobs, you got to get obama care out of there. in one study, 73% of a businessowners said that obama-care has made it harder for them to hire people. think of that. almost three quarters of small businesses saying obama care is making it less likely to hire people. if jobs are your priority, you have to get rid of obama care and put in place real reform that works. repealing obama-care and replacing it will give businesses the kind of certainty they need to expand and to hire and to grow. now, by the way, we could also jump-start our economy by exp d expanding trade in our hemisphere. as you know, however, the president hasn't completed a single new trade agreement with a latin america nation and he's failed to crack down on countries like china that don't live by the rules. we know our kids can't succeed if they're trapped in failing schools. that's why as
applause ] everybody likes free stuff, but there is no free stuff when government has to pay and has to tax the american people or when it borrows from future generations and obama-care is depressing job growth. if priority number one is jobs, you got to get obama care out of there. in one study, 73% of a businessowners said that obama-care has made it harder for them to hire people. think of that. almost three quarters of small businesses saying obama care is making it less likely to hire...
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what they proved with the tax cut, it does not have to be paid for. i wonder if that will change the dynamic of the argument. >> the republican caucus is in and of itself a strange beast, i want to draw everyone's attention to an interview that peggy nunan has with the speaker john boehner. he said that the tea party has not made the house ungovernable and said we got 435 members. it's just a slice of america, it really is. we got some of smartest people in the country and some of the dumbest, we got some of the best people and some of the raunrhiest we have them a all. >> who is the dumbest and the raunchiest? >> we find out who those are when the pictures come out on the internet. >> yes, we do. >> but i mean, could it, we know that there's supposed to be some sort of sister soldier healing moment going on between the boehner and cantor camps. boehner commented saying eric and i never disagreed on strategy every, there's been disagreement on strategy, but not between us, just usually between the staffs. and we had conversations to make sure we are a
what they proved with the tax cut, it does not have to be paid for. i wonder if that will change the dynamic of the argument. >> the republican caucus is in and of itself a strange beast, i want to draw everyone's attention to an interview that peggy nunan has with the speaker john boehner. he said that the tea party has not made the house ungovernable and said we got 435 members. it's just a slice of america, it really is. we got some of smartest people in the country and some of the...
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s. >> obama invested tax dollars in solyndra, lost half a billion, 1100 workers laid off without fair warning. >> risky investment strategy did not stop there. >> 11 green energy companies besides solyndra, billions of tax dollars, declared bankruptcy. >> glenn thrush, is this scary? is team obama scared about what si si solyndra might do on the campaign trail? >> 1100 lost jobs, how many are we mustering with bayne nose are 100s. >> the bayne math over jobs is porous math insofar as you gain some, you lose. >> so is solyndra, the truth of the matter is, there was a wholesale collapse of the solar industry, but none of this stuff matters in terms of ads. >> steve, it's not just about sort of failed green tech and an an indictment of alternative sources of energy and potential criticism of cronyism but the president is a job killer in this investment. >> job killer. there that is subtle or not subtle counter to the bayne stuff, hey, obama cost us jobs, too. just a shot at his cotense there, economic anxiety is so high. they failed here, they failed there, it's giving people that kind o
s. >> obama invested tax dollars in solyndra, lost half a billion, 1100 workers laid off without fair warning. >> risky investment strategy did not stop there. >> 11 green energy companies besides solyndra, billions of tax dollars, declared bankruptcy. >> glenn thrush, is this scary? is team obama scared about what si si solyndra might do on the campaign trail? >> 1100 lost jobs, how many are we mustering with bayne nose are 100s. >> the bayne math over jobs...